This was fun. Very engaging.

I kind of figured out most of the twists pretty far before they were revealed: Kidnapping attempts being faked, Esther's status as a scribe, Cecily's silence spell, Maram being Esther's mother

--but I still enjoyed the story. There were some nice touches: Joanna's experience at Catholic Mass triggering her sexual awakening by provoking some h/c fanfiction with Jesus was very funny; and I rather liked the conversation early on about how it's wrong to attribute anti-witch sentiments of the past to book-hunters, because that buys into the whole story that the people being hunted did have some occult significance, rather than being senseless victims of humans' propensity to dickishness. I had a good time reading the book, and it left me feeling reasonably contented. But I felt as if some of the hype I'd read about it was a bit overblown. It was fine. It was fun. But it wasn't really special.